Example sentences of "had [vb pp] talking to " in BNC.

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1 As he was relating his story , he suddenly realised that sitting before him among the directors was the sandy-haired man he had seen talking to Mr Dwerringhouse .
2 Before the Swinbrook farmer had finished talking to them , Boz leaped to his feet to say , angrily , ‘ We Romanies have been using the forest for hundreds of years .
3 I was going to tell my joke to the nice German but he had started talking to someone else .
4 Philippa , whose face was normally as radiant and untroubled as a child 's , had not stopped frowning since Lee had started talking to her that afternoon and it annoyed Conrad to see it .
5 At least Karen had started talking to him again .
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